For many years I've marveled about the "coincidence" of three highly influential saints living in Krakow at roughly the same moment in history: St. Faustina Kowalska, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and Pope St. John Paul II. George Weigel has pointed out in the book we co-authored, 'City of Saints', that Poland was the place where the 20th century happened — the place where Nazism and Communism would run their violent course...... read more